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Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

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Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

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Post by ChuckMcM »

jedberg wrote: post #6
ChuckMcM wrote: post #3

Its an interesting choice of battlegrounds. I find the infrastructure vs infrastructure wars fascinating by how Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' and getting less and less for it.

> Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' This is a myth. Both companies created their infrastructure businesses as separate entities by leveraging their datacenter expertise, but they were not 'remainders'.

Very interesting, this doesn't match my experience, can you say more about how you reason to the claim that Google created a separate 'infrastructure business entity' ?

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jedberg wrote: post #6
ChuckMcM wrote: post #3

Its an interesting choice of battlegrounds. I find the infrastructure vs infrastructure wars fascinating by how Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' and getting less and less for it.

> Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' This is a myth. Both companies created their infrastructure businesses as separate entities by leveraging their datacenter expertise, but they were not 'remainders'.

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Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

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Post by thrownaway2424 »

simon_ wrote: post #12

Is this partially an attempt to throw a wrench in the gears of the Box IPO? If there's going to be a price war anyway, better to start it now and prevent a competitor from amassing a big war chest. I don't understand how much Box is a (potential) competitor in this market, so could be way off base.

How does losing > $100e6 per year result in "amassing a big war chest"?

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Post by boundlessdreamz »

For anyone planning to use google cloud storage as an s3/cloudfront alternative to host public content, pay close attention to request pricing. Retrieving an object through its HTTP url is considered a class B XML request type by Google Cloud Storage. That is 1.3x - 2.5x times more expensive than cloudfront and s3 respectively.

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Post by johne20 »

panarky wrote: post #11
westonh wrote: post #2

From @clstokes With today’s Google Cloud price cuts: - an n1-standard-1 on #GCE is $ $35.38/month - an m3.medium on #AWS is $82.72/month

That's not quite a fair comparison. The $35.38 Google price takes advantage of their sustained usage discount, if the instance is running the entire month. The EC2 price is the full rack rate. You can do better with a spot instance, or by paying up front for a 1-year or 3-year reserved instance. It's still a stunning price drop from Google. And from my tests, the Google instances give a lot more performance than the…

Can you speak more to "Google instances give a lot more performance than the supposedly equivalent EC2 instances"?

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Post by efiftythree »

jedberg wrote: post #6
ChuckMcM wrote: post #3

Its an interesting choice of battlegrounds. I find the infrastructure vs infrastructure wars fascinating by how Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' and getting less and less for it.

> Google and Amazon invested in them for their own businesses and are now productizing the 'remainders' This is a myth. Both companies created their infrastructure businesses as separate entities by leveraging their datacenter expertise, but they were not 'remainders'.

This is definitely accurate from an Amazon standpoint. AWS was created as a separate product/business. At present Amazon is undertaking an internal push to leverage the AWS business to replace some of their long standing (and aging) "private" infrastructure.

Re: Google Announces Massive Price Drops for Cloud Computing Services, Storage

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Post by simon_ »

thrownaway2424 wrote: post #24
simon_ wrote: post #12

Is this partially an attempt to throw a wrench in the gears of the Box IPO? If there's going to be a price war anyway, better to start it now and prevent a competitor from amassing a big war chest. I don't understand how much Box is a (potential) competitor in this market, so could be way off base.

How does losing > $100e6 per year result in "amassing a big war chest"?

Raising a $250MM IPO is amassing a war chest. If that becomes harder, they become less competitive.
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